Andrew Huberman· PhD
Protein Requirements, Dietary Protein Recommendations, Standard Deviations
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Protein Requirements, Dietary Protein Recommendations, Standard Deviations
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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Now now the buffering with two standard deviations above this nitrogen balance amount. I think that's something really important to double click on for for people because most people hear oh um it was just the minimum amount required to maintain nitrogen balance. Uh but in reality it's much higher than that.
That's not an optimal protein. It's like a minimal protein requirement. Okay. So, I totally buy that argument. But I think the first thing that people get wrong is they think that that old method is recommending the average requirement and it's not. It's got a safety buffer. It's got two standard deviations built on top of it.
So the recommended daily allowance of protein is set at two standard deviations above the value determined by this disgusting nitrogen balance test decades and decades ago.